Method of manufacturing drummers&#39; samples for textile fabrics.



UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIoE.

ANTON CHARLES KORCINEK, or NEW-YORK, r nssienon TO AMERICAN nnsienms &

REPRODUCIING COMPANY, OF'NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OFv NEW YORK.

METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DRUMMEBS SAMPLES TEXTILE FABRICS.

- Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented April 13, 1909.

Application filed July 11, 19o7,'Seria1 No. 3 3,254.. Renewed March 2, ices. Serial No. 480,969.

- To whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, ANTON CHARLES KOROINEK, a citizen of the United State and a resident of the city of New Yor county of New York, and State of New which the followin' is a specification. I My invention re ates to samples or specimens of textile fabrics containing designsin different colors, used by drummers and trav-' cling salesmen in soliciting orders in that line of business, and its object is to produce such a sample or specimen rior to the production of the fabric itself, w 'ch may be exhibited to prospective customers, and if the design meets with favor, orders may be taken and the goods subsequently manufactured, whereas if the design does not meet with favor, it may be discarded and no loss will be sufl'ered except for the comparatively small cost of making the design.v Heretofore it has been the universalcustom'in selling textile fabrics containing the designs to, first manufacture the, goods containing the design, in

u'antities, and then cut off a small sample t ereof to be pasted on paper'and taken around, by the drummer to be exhibited to respective customers. If orders are secured or 0001s of any articular design they are fille by the manu acturer from the stock in hand theretofore manufactured, whereas if no orders are taken, the goods already manufactured become a dead loss.

.my invention, I make in advance a small specimen or sample of the new design upon a textile fabric prior to the manufacture of the goods themselves and presentin the same a pearance as the manufactured goods, so t at the drummer can exhibit'this specimen 'to prospective customers, and ifhe secures orders therefor the goods are subsequently manufactured to fill the orders; whereas if no orders are secured for-a particular design, no goods containing that design will be manufactured, and the only loss suffered will he the comparatively small cost of making th design. 1 Such practice as this has heretofore never been carried out, and I am the first in the art to inaugurate it. I

In carryingo'ut my invention the artist first makes the design in colors on paper '1) hand and the same is then traced in blac Tutes Impressions on'paper are then printed from According to graphic negative on a wet plate is then made of this tracing, which negativeis afterward transferred to a lithographic stone in the fol lowing manner: The stone is first coated with a light sensitive solution of egg albumen, bi-chromate of ammonia, and water; then the negative-is securely clamped to the stone on the surface thereof and ex osed to light, pref erably an electric fight, or about five min- This prints the negative on the stone.

the stone, as many separate impressions as there are separate colors in the deslgn. This paper impression is. dusted over with red chalk, which adheres only to the ink, and itis then pressedlonto another pre ared lithographic stone and the outlines of the design are thus delineated on the stone by the red chalk marks. There is a separate impression on each stone for each color in the design. The artist then takes these various ofl"- sets and on eachone paints in with black lithographic ink the s ace allowed for its par- 1 ticul'ar color-in the esign, after which the stone is etched with nitric acid so as to'reproduce the particular color, and passed through a press. 'By passin over these stones in succession a piece of fa ric in a press the design w'illbe' imprinted upon the fabric in fast colors and the result will thus be'a complete fac-simile of the original design. is then pasted onto a piece of paper and is ready for exhibition by the drummer to his pros ctive customers. The cost of roduemg t is design is comparatively smal and if away without furtherloss' to the manufacturer.

it does not prove salable itcan bethrown I am aware that it is old to'nse lithographic stones, zinc or other such plates for printing in colors on paper, but in such case transfersheets of a hard unim ressible substance. such as celluloi dare first made, and

upon them the different colors are produced I by hand, after which the portion of the design on each such sheet is transferred to the printing surface of stone, zinc, or other such material, which is etched in the usual manner, and therefrom the print is made. Such process is long, laborious, tedious, and ex I ensive. In it no use is made of photo-lit ography. My invention differs from the above in two particulars, viz: (1) in the printing I of-colored designs on textile-fabrics in'fast a W t O -Fr ei :rar .-..A P Q FQ';

colors forthe production of a drummers sample, and (2) in th use Of phetodi thog mphy, instead of the old hand prscess of the artist.

Whatl claim. and desirs tosscure by Letters Patent is:

The method of making a facsimile ssmpi'e of a, textile fabric print, consisting in first, tracing in black on paper tbs. complete pattern, second, phetogi'aphing the same; third, transferring said photographic ngativs' t0 lithographic stone, f urth, taking as many impressions therefrom as there are Qolors in the design, fifth, transferring these-impressions to as many printing surfaces as there "are colors in tbe design, sixth, painting on 3' each surface the design for its assigned c0101, seventh, stizbin said savers-1 designs, eighth .ztpylying the ":saected aoiors to said ssvsrsi deslgns, and ninth, pressing a piain tsxtz'le fabric sample upon said .aurfacss succsssive1y in rsgisteril'zg position to reproduce the com plats originai design. A

in testinwny Wheres; I have iasreuntu set my hand this 6th day of July, 1.90 7.

ANTON EQHARLES KORCDIEK. In presence 0f-- J H. lvilLifjElt, CATHARlNE H's-mu. 

